Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa

6 reviews

lizmart88's review

4.0

This book won the Pulitzer Prize and rightly so. It is the kind of compassionate story that is so rare for Black men who are victims of police brutality to get - a retelling of his life with all its flaws and beauty. It's the story of the man who ignited the 2020 racial justice uprising and what his life really was like. In so many ways, it's a truly American story - it has football and promise, affordable housing, addiction, family, friendships, new starts, and everything in between. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Death of parent

cmsmith's review

reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Beautifully and hauntingly written. My only complaint is that the chapters are a little long (which makes it hard to have the time to sit and read if you’re the kind of person that feels the need to finish a chapter before closing the book). 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Incredibly well researched and thoroughly detailed, this book is an absolutely must read for understanding the world in which George Floyd lived and died and, perhaps most importantly, who he was as a person and the legacy he leaves behind and the work still left to do towards racial justice. It's long and heavy, but it was never boring or dry or too much (although beware going into the scenes of his death, those are definitely very, very intense and probably very triggering for many people).

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

the0bauman's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Murder

Moderate: Addiction

samarakroeger's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

it was lacking a little something but it is certainly a decent biography.  I appreciated how straightforward the narrative structure was.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Murder